Make everything easier

No one wants to waste time learning complicated computer programs. SketchUp is hands-down the most intuitive, not to mention powerful, easy-to-learn 3D drawing tool on the planet. If you want to be productive within a couple of hours, you’ve come to the right place.

Get good, fast

No one wants to waste time learning complicated software. SketchUp Pro is hands-down the most intuitive and easy-to-learn 3D drawing tool on the planet.

Think by drawing in 3D

We designed SketchUp to behave like an extension of your hand. The idea is to get out of your way so that you can draw whatever you want, however you want.

Iterate quickly through design ideas

We love how architects use layers and layers of tracing paper to develop and improve their ideas. Similarly, SketchUp was born to be simple to let you iterate.

Produce scaled, accurate 2D drawings

SketchUp isn’t just for 3D models. Draw plans, elevations, details, title blocks and other graphics with LayOut. When your model changes, so does your document. Simple.

Generate presentation documents

SketchUp Pro includes LayOut, an incredibly powerful tool with features for page layout, drafting, vector illustration and slide presentations.

Create compelling visualizations and walkthroughs

Use SketchUp Pro to turn your models into animated walkthroughs and flyovers that explain every detail of your design.

Don't take our word for it...

We don’t spend a lot of time learning the software, and because it’s so intuitive, we’ve reached a point where we can rapidly turn detailed models into production drawings for manufacturing facilities.

- Carroll Shephard

Environmental Air Systems

Sketchup Pro has helped us visualize potential problems in 3D, allowing us to find conflicts on the computer, rather than in the field. This prevents us from wasting material and resources.

- Mark Lessmuller

Daniel Company

I was really surprised how fast I could model almost anything with this software. A chain link which took me 4 hours to model with 'Mechanical Desktop' was done in 50 minutes with SketchUp.

- André da Silva

Consultant

SketchUp's intuitiveness comes from its ability to relate back to basic geometric principles. It's geometry-driven instead of menu-driven. Even engineering colleagues who 'don't do CAD pick up SketchUp very quickly.

- Mitchel Stangl

Stangl Associates

Simple is Powerful

Find a 3D model of anything

Need an oven for the kitchen you’re designing? An automobile for your driveway? A rhino for your zoo? Find it all in 3D Warehouse, the world’s biggest library of free 3D models.

Turn models into documents

Eventually, some 3D models grow up to become professional 2D drawing sets. LayOut in SketchUp Pro helps you showcase your models and create drawings you’ll be proud of.

Customize your SketchUp

SketchUp extensions are add-on tools built to solve the kind of 3D modeling problems that might otherwise leave you scratching your head. And there are hundreds of them for you to explore.

Make beautiful drawings

LayOut brings the “feel” of SketchUp into 2D space in an incomparably beautiful way. Line work, shadows, textures, text, dimensions, title blocks: all exactly the way you want.

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Intuitive vector drawing

LayOut’s drawing tools are just like SketchUp’s: simple, smart, and fun. And everything you draw is vector smart, so scaling and rotating can be done with the utmost precision.

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Dimension, detail, explain

Use dimensioning tools that snap to the edges of SketchUp models and quickly set the format, scale, and precision of displayed measurements. Customize your callouts via controls for line weight, stroke style, text format, line spacing... You get the picture, so will your clients.

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Find a 3D model of anything

3D Warehouse is the world’s largest repository of free 3D models, and it works seamlessly with SketchUp. That means building materials, furniture, plants, automobiles, the whole shebang is all handy in a few clicks.

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Find a model from a trusted manufacturer

With manufacturer partners like Herman Miller, Formica, Thermador and many others, we’re working to make 3D Warehouse the best place on the web to find a model of a specific, real-world object. Now when you specify an oven for a kitchen, you can be sure you’re working with accurate geometry, not to mention beautiful models.

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Present on any device

When you upload your models to 3D Warehouse, it’s easy to pull them down onto your phone or tablet using the SketchUp Mobile Viewer app. Then, get hands on with clients and collaborators wherever, however you’d like.